samuel337 | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 06 2008 | windows, networks, user experience"It's strange that we haven't heard a peep about this earlier, but apparently Microsoft's been working on a suite of bundled network discovery and configuration tools called Windows Rally, designed to ease ODM development of network devices and make them as easy to use as USB gear."
This is pretty neat; goes one step further than Apple's Bonjour/zeroconf. But at the end of the day, these things have existed in some form for years already, yet device manufacturers still haven't adopted them - will this change?
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I'm having a bear of a time trying to set up Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) so that I can have one computer set up to my hotel's wired internet connection, and then share that internet connection via an ad-hoc Wifi connection to a second computer in our hotel room.
ICS is amazingly poorly documented, as well as seeming very difficult to set up a success ad-hoc wifi network.
- My wifi card seems to be using a 169.254.x.x address - but the documentation I've read said to expect it to expose 192.168.0.1.
- My shared WiFi connection does not expose a DHCP server - so clients are not getting an address or Gateway IP address from my machine.And besides this, it's very common for Windows networking to just hang for minutes at a time and not return control to the calling user interface. There's just about no other piece of software I use that sucks as bad as windows networking.
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